Parable Of The Four-poster Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACABD EAFGBCD HIJHKAL HMNHOPQR| Because she wants to touch him | A |
| she moves away | B |
| Because she wants to talk to him | A |
| she keeps silent | C |
| Because she wants to kiss him | A |
| she turns away | B |
| kisses a man she does not want to kiss | D |
| - | |
| He watches | E |
| thinking she does not want him | A |
| He listens | F |
| hearing her silence | G |
| He turns away | B |
| thinking her distant | C |
| kisses a girl he does not want to kiss | D |
| - | |
| They marry each other | H |
| A four way mistake | I |
| He goes to bed with his wife | J |
| thinking of her | H |
| Sher goes to bed with her husband | K |
| thinking of him | A |
| all this in a real old fashioned four poster bed | L |
| - | |
| Do they live unhappily ever after | H |
| Of course | M |
| Do they undo their mistakes | N |
| Never | H |
| Who is the victim here | O |
| Love is the victim | P |
| Who is the villian | Q |
| Love that never dies | R |
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